Java Spring – How to use classpath to specify a file location?

Are we talking about standard java.io.FileReader? Won’t work, but it’s not hard without it.

/src/main/resources maven directory contents are placed in the root of your CLASSPATH, so you can simply retrieve it using:

InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/storedProcedures.sql");

If the result is not null (resource not found), feel free to wrap it in a reader:

Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(is);